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GUARDIAN ANGEL, My Story, My Britain, charts the journey of a journalist and writer who moved from darling of the left to champion of the moral high ground. This memoir of her personal and professional life
reflects the cultural changes in society over more than three decades.

The book is among the opening titles released by Melanie's new
publishing company, Melanie Phillips Electric Media. It can be purchased
from emBooks.com as well as from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and iBooks.

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Obama's dangerous campaign

Into my inbox last week popped an email from Michelle
Obama. "Thank you for an amazing week… Can you chip in $5 or more to stand
with Barack today?"

For some reason, I have been on the Obama campaign
mailing list for the past four years -- which is a hoot since, from the get-go,
I have warned about Obama's extremist, Black-Power, Israel-hating background
and circle, and that he would be a disaster for Israel and the west.

So it has proved. Yet astoundingly there are Jews who
believe he has been the most Israel-friendly US president in history.

Which only goes to show the propensity of the liberal
mind to outright hallucination when faced with the implosion of its
shibboleths. The passion for Israel in the Bible-believing "red
states" guarantees a level of support that not even the most virulent White
House anti-Zionist could overturn.

But that doesn't mean a president can't undermine
Israel by more circuitous means - as Obama has done. He has put Israel at
grievous risk by his view of the world, which has neutralised America's power
abroad and strengthened its enemies.

Although we are told he wants to stop Iran from
developing nuclear weapons, his limp dealings have allowed it to continue
inexorably with its nuclear programme (despite reports of sabotage) and extend
its power in the region.

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused
to issue a "red line" threat of ultimate force on the grounds that
"negotiations are the best approach". But as Bibi protested in the
row with Obama that boiled over this week, that allows Iran a clear run to the
bomb. By the time the US decides Iran has to be forcibly stopped, it will be
too late. It will already have the bomb.

Second, the Obama administration has consistently
distanced America from Israel and cosied up instead to its Arab and Muslim
attackers. Thus it backed the 2010 nuclear non-proliferation summit that
singled out Israel for condemnation while excluding Iran from criticism - and
has worked behind the scenes to neutralise Israel's nuclear deterrent, its
ultimate defence against genocide.

It went ahead with a special operations exercise with
19 Arab and Muslim countries, while excluding Israel from a counter-terrorism
conference at Turkey's insistence.

Last July, it invited the UN Commissioner for Human
Rights and notorious Israel- critic Navi Pillay to "brief" the
Security Council on Israel's supposed crimes - and in the process drew an
effective moral equivalence between the behaviour of Israel and Syria.

Obama tried to bounce Israel into withdrawing to its
1949 "Auschwitz borders", pressured it over settlement building,
which merely hardened Palestinian rejectionism, and failed to hold Mahmoud
Abbas responsible for repeatedly declaring he would never accept Israel as a
Jewish state.

Meanwhile, last week's Democratic convention descended
into farce when its panicky attempt to restore references deleted from the
party's programme to God, and to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, was booed.

Whether they were booing God, Jerusalem or the clearly
out-of-order chairman is irrelevant. There was not even a two-thirds majority
to put both deletions back into that Obama-centric programme - which still left
out the party's previous rejection of Hamas, the Palestinian demand for
unlimited immigration to Israel and any return to the 1949 borders.

This is a shocking way to treat an ally. When that ally
is facing existential attack, it is unspeakable.

Obama is a menace to the security of Israel and the
west and an American tragedy. What is astounding is that so many Jews refuse to
see this and continue to support both him and his morally bankrupt Democratic
Party. That is the Jewish tragedy.

About Melanie

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known
for her controversial column about political and social issues which
currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for
journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an
acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which
provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of
parents.